Rope-fastener.



UNTTED STATES PATENT @EETQE.

SAMUEL SEARING BANOKER, OF NEW YOItK, N. Y.

ROPE-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,533, dated July 16,1901.

' Application filed April 30, 1901. Serial No. 58,203. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL SEARING BANOKER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at No. 60 Horatio street, in the city of New York,county of New York, and State of New York, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Rope-Fasteners to Speedily Fasten Clothes-Lines,Tent-Ropes, &c., of which the following is a specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a planview of my improved rope-fastener.Fig. 2 is a sectional View taken at right angles to the plan shown inFig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4 are plan and sectional views showing rope inposition.

Referring to drawings, Fig. 1, the device consists of a casting ofmetal, preferably galvanized iron or other substance not liable tocorrosion, in the form of a parallelogram, containing three holes in itslength, with a short horn on either side at the forward end to preventthe rope becoming displaced from its proper position around the pin D,projecting from the end between the horns.

The operation is as follows, viz: One end of the rope or clothes-line isspliced or otherwise fastened in the hole 0 and the other after passingover the stationary pulleys at either end of the yard is rove upwardthrough the hole A and downward through the middle hole B and a knotmade in the free end to preventit becoming accidentally detached. Infastening the rope it is drawn tightly upward through the hole A and thebight passed over thepin D and the slack drawn down through the hole B,as in Figs. 3 and 4.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

An improved rope-fastener consisting of a single piece containing threeholes for the passage of a rope, a pin around which to fasten such ropeand the horns or shoulders to keep the rope in position around the pin.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, this filth day of April, 1901.

SAMUEL SEARING BANOKER.

Witnesses:

EDWIN FRANCIS GALLOWAY, LIONEL JAooBI.

